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1D Stock Cutter is a powerful, quick, compact, easy to use and universal tool for those users who need to optimize cutting of any linear material, say, metal rebars, tubes, extrusions, lineal wood, etc.
Typically, optimizer reduces stock material waste by a factor of 5 - 15 (from about 10% to about 1%) with respect to manual cut planning. Program run time is around 1?100 seconds on a Pentium-166 PC, depending on the number of items involved. Any case it saves time and reduces a level of experience required for cut planning significantly.
The program solves so called 'One-dimensional Bin Packing Problem' (1DBPP) - optimizes the distribution of any number of pieces, having mostly different lengths, amongst a number of larger uniform or different stock lengths in order to minimize the material waste, or as a version - associated material cost.
Actually, term "Stock Material Length" may be associated with a real Length of, say, stock bars, profiles, pipes, wood boards / beams, or with real total Width of stock rolls, which have to be cut into different more narrow rolls (1D cutting cases), as well as associated with the container to load Weight (1D packing case), or any other measure of limited capacity.
Program limits (free version) are as follows:
- maximum total number of pieces to cut out is 50;
- maximum total number of stock items to use is 3000;
- maximum number of different piece sizes is 5;
- maximum number of different stock sizes is 10;
1D Stock Cutter can run under Windows 95/98/NT/2000.. on common PCs beginning with 486/DX2-66 with 800*600 or higher resolution SVGA monitor.
Pentium-166 or higher recommended for comfortable use.
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